10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONVULSIONARY»
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convulsionary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Science Vs. Modern Spiritualism: A Treatise on Turning ...
author speaks as the brother who tried on a wall the effect of blows similar to the
ones he had just given to this convulsionary. ... It was in vain that I employed,
throughout, all the strength I could exert to redouble the weight of my blows ; the ...
Agénor comte de Gasparin, 1857
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A Treatise on Turning Tables: The Supernatural in General, ...
author speaks as the brother who tried on a wall the effect of blows similar to the
ones he had just given to this convulsionary. . . . It was in vain that I employed,
throughout, all the strength I could exert to redouble the weight of my blows ; the ...
Agénor comte de Gasparin, 1857
3
Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and ...
The wiser Appellants saw the danger of these exhibitions, and seceded from the
Convulsionary faction. The Jesuits exerted the whole force of their powerful
organization to suppress these hated relics of Jansenism. The philosophers
ridiculed ...
4
The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin ...
As this scheme suggests, the convulsionary phenomenon was not without
prophetic and apocalyptic overtones made more explicit by verbal discourses
that often accompanied or sometimes took the place of bodily convulsions. Often
uttered ...
5
The Religion of the Heart
There followed numerous reports of cures from illnesses, often accompanied by
convulsionary behavior. Men and women danced in the Spirit, some claimed to
speak in unknown tongues, and women claimed not only the prophetic office, but
...
6
Volcanic Reflections: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary ...
... for an act ... each image is a project for change poetry: convulsionary. * * *
CONVULSIONARY, 9 I say WORLD and leaks develop in my house Poemas
intensos ************************************* FURTIVELY Furtively, what do we
search for,
Ronald Haladyna, Editor, 2011
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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-century French Politics and ...
Indeed, he had flirted with Jansenism's seamier activities, namely, the
convulsionary movement, and unlike many of his contemporaries, he defended
and admired convulsionary women. Praising the convulsionary Sister Sainte-
Bazile of the ...
8
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99
In February 1733, Fleury passed a decree prohibiting convulsionary sessions in
either public or private - and the Parlement supported him, and failed to block a
decree in May which took jurisdiction of Jansenist cases out of their hands.
9
Power and Politics in Old Regime France, 1720-1745
At its height around 1732 the convulsionary movement may have attracted
hundreds of participants and three to four thousand followers. 32 Systeme du
melange dans l'œure des convulsions, 1735 (BL699 i 14), p. 6. 33 See Kreiser,
Miracles ...
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The Britannic magazine; or entertaining repository of heroic ...
The Sieur Carre de Montgeron, counsellor of the parliament ; a convulsionary. He
presented totheking, at Versailles, a book entitled The Truth of the Miracles of M.
Paris. — In 1738, Father Leonard Avril, called Boucheron, of the order of La ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONVULSIONARY»
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convulsionary is used in the context of the following news items.
Franz Mesmer, the father of animal magnetism
... magnets on the woman's chest after she had had another seizure. The woman was having a convulsionary attack, which then subsided. «Pravda, Aug 11»
Happy Birthday, Samuel Johnson, Dictionary Writer and Biographer
Sometimes called “the great convulsionary” for his twitches and tics, Johnson pulled himself up from a poor, sickly son of a bookseller to ... «findingDulcinea, Sep 08»
An Academic View on the Right to Party
For example, Catholic missionaries setting out from France after the 1730s would have heard about the heretical Parisian "convulsionary" cult, ... «NPR, Jan 07»
